Mecca Hills

Mecca Hills
Mecca Hills
Mountain Range
Country United States
State California
District Riverside County
Coordinates 33°37′42″N 116°1′0″W / 33.62833°N 116.016667°W / 33.62833; -116.016667
Highest point
 - elevation 1,239 ft (378 m)
Timezone Pacific (UTC-8)
 - summer (DST) PDT (UTC-7)
Topo map USGS Thermal Canyon
location of Mecca Hills in California[1]

The Mecca Hills are a low mountain range located in Riverside County, California in southern California, USA, east of the Coachella Valley, west of the Chuckwalla Mountains, and south of Interstate 10 in the Colorado Desert. The range lies in an east-west direction. The Mecca Hills are north of the Salton Sea and south of Joshua Tree National Park, with the Orocopia Mountains to the southeast.[1]

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Mecca Hills Wilderness Area

The area is the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) designated and managed Mecca Hills Wilderness Area. The Mecca Hills are in the Colorado Desert section of the Sonoran Desert, adjacent to the Lower Colorado River Valley region.

The Wilderness Area includes narrow steep-walled canyons winding and creating a natural maze within the badlands. Uniquely faulted and folded geologic formations are the result of the San Andreas Fault, making the Mecca Hills one of the more unusual geological sites of this kind.[2]

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References

  1. ^ a b "Mecca Hills". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:245743. Retrieved 2009-05-04. 
  2. ^ http://www.blm.gov/ca/pa/wilderness/wa/areas/mecca_hills.html . accessed 6/20/2010 . BLM public domain sourced

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